Communists: Sickles in the Sky

The Soviet Union long dismissed reports
of unidentified flying objects as mere flights of Western fancy, and
the party newspaper Pravda on one occasion derided them as "fairy
tales." Pravda will have to change its mind: the Kremlin itself
has now decided to keep a closer eye out for flying saucers. After a
flurry of UFO sightings in recent weeks, many of them by presumably
reliable Aeroflot and military pilots, the Soviet Union has named a team
of 18 scientists and air force officers, backed by 1,000 field
observers, to study the phenomenon in the Red skies.